30 Google+ Tips to Enhance Your Google Plus Experience

Google has finally rolled out Google+ which is not yet another service like Google Wave and Buzz, but is an amazing and power packed social networking website which is deemed to rise very high and compete with today’s biggies ‘Facebook and Twitter’.

I tried out Google+ after getting an invite and found it really interesting, may it be its simple and cool design or the variety of features it offers. One has to accept that Google has done some really good and hard work in bringing out Google+. After all, it was their longtime wish to have a Google Social Network that can dominate the web.

# Here are some useful Google+ Tips shared by Matt Cutts and users who responded to Matt’s post at Google+. All these tips are handy and let you experience the actual power of Google+ (PLUS). Check them below:

1. Click on Profile pictures to rotate through them.

2. Click ‘j‘ to navigate down to the next item or ‘k‘ to navigate up when checking the stream using a keyboard.

3. To add formatting to your text, use the simple trick below.

(*)bold(*): Add * before and after the message.

(_)italics(_): Add _ before and after the message.

(-)strike-through(-): Add – before and after the message.

For example, *Hello* _everyone_ -Mayur- will appear as shown below:

4. Click on “Limited” next to the timestamp to find out the actual list of persons with whom you are sharing a particular post.

5. Add a + or @ signal to mention someone specifically in a post.

6. Click on the Timestamp to get the permalink (web URL) of any post.

7. Share your post with Public or Circle/Circles only. You can even share a post with an individual by typing their name or email address. A very useful one!

8. What’s more, you can even edit the photos uploaded by you. It’s easy and flawless.

Open any picture uploaded by you or visit the gallery. Select Actions > Edit photo.

Then improve your not so good photos by adding some smart effects to them in a click.

18. What’s that Incoming option under Stream? “Incoming” stream is stuff from people who are sharing with you, but who you haven’t added to a circle.

19. Give feedback – Found any bug or have a tip to suggest? Just click Send feedback from the lower right corner, the cool part is you can highlight the faulty area and report about it.

20. Trick to Invite anyone to Google+ even if you don’t have invites – Make a post, Share it with that person using his email address. Then ask him to click Learn more about Google+ in the received email. On opening it, he would be able to Join Google+.

25. Manage how People from your Circles appears to everyone on your Profile – Open your Google+ profile and edit it. Then click the round black-grey icon and select the desired options. You can also choose to hide the “Have you in Circles” box.

26. Make +1 Tab Public – The +1 tab on your Google+ profile is disabled by default to be seen by anyone else, i.e. only you can see that tab. To make it public, visit your profile > Edit profile. Click on +1’s tab and tick mark the option ‘Show this tab on my profile’. Now everyone would be able to see the +1s by you. (It only lists the +1s that you’ve done on any webpage outside of Google+).

28. Set the privacy setting for Gender on your Google+ Profile – Google+ now allows you to control who sees your gender on your Google+ Profile. Just open your profile, select Edit profile, tap on Gender option and choose whom you want to make it visible for.

29. Report Abuse or Remove Comments – Seems this option wasn’t present originally and has been added recently. It is very useful, might come handy when someone spams on your post or make derogatory comments. You can report abuse or remove any desired comment. This option appears only when there is a comment on any post made by you.

30. Rename albums in Google+ – Google Plus has recently added the functionality to rename photo albums right in Google+. To do so, navigate to Photos > Your albums > click an album and click on the album title. Voila! Edit the album title.

Mayur Agarwal is the founder and editor-in-chief of WebTrickz. As a Technology enthusiast and an Internet addict, he loves sharing useful How To’s and Tips & Tricks. Follow him @mayurjango on Twitter where he is extremely active.

@Mayur @Omkar #14 Facebook had the view profile as another person forever but it was under privacy settings / view settings on the basic profile / preview profile and then the box to enter the name was there. As usual Facebook burying all the nice features that they claim to have. Google+ right in your profile no clicks. Very nice!!!!

@Omkar…. facebook did have the “view profile as” feature, but Google+ allows you to customise your profile per person, which is something that facebook never really mastered. You could lock things from lists, but it was a very tedious process. Google+ has made it much more streamlined.

Thanks for the collection. Managed to join Google+ a couple of days ago (big thanks to Paulina (@sitegefuehl). However all those ‘invite tricks’ seem dysfunctional: Although an email is sent to the specified address, once people click on the ‘learn more’ button, they get redirected to a 404 page 🙁 Very disappointing.

@Omkar
“Nice Post. But #14 says “See how your profile appears to others – Something unique!”.. It is nothing new and unique, since it is already available in Facebook from years.”

No. It hasn’t. This allows you to see specifically from one other user (Your mother, your boss, your ex) – because you can have a number of different groups of people who can or can not see – facebook is old hat in this area.

@Keir Hardie They might look same but they aren’t because one CANT mute his/her own post with the option in tip #10. However, that can be done using the mute option in notifications as shown in tip #12. Could be same if you target someone else post. 🙂

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Great post – and some good tips. One I’d like to add is how you can pimp up your pop over people see when scrolling over your name. Just go to edit profile, then to employment, in first input box ONLY, you can put a large amount of text. If you are on G+ just scroll over my name – and let’s connect too https://plus.google.com/103788918112635947241 I have invites left. Just contact me via twitter and DM with your email address @lorirtaylor

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